Founded in 1972, the Fremont Fair is one of Seattle’s most beloved neighborhood street festivals, featuring a weekend of eclectic activities that celebrate the quirky community of Fremont, the self-proclaimed “center of the universe.” Held annually in mid-June to coincide with the Summer Solst[...]
Archive for June 19th, 2011
June 19th, 2011 - 10:49 am § in Misc.
Sex Educatioin Swiss Style
from The Local: Members of the SVP, CVP and EDU political parties are dubbing the initiative “a catastrophe,” according to a report in the daily 20 Minuten. They argue that sex education should remain primarily in the hands of the children’s parents and that making “sex class[...]
June 19th, 2011 - 10:06 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Palestine
CAIRO, June 19 (RIA Novosti) The final round of talks between leaders of the recently reconciled Fatah and Hamas movements, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal, scheduled for June 21 in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, was postponed for unidentified period of time, Egypt’s news agency MENA said. Th[...]
June 19th, 2011 - 10:04 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Libya
The Economist say that Tripoli is being cut off from oil. A gallon of petrol is selling for over $10 and fuel lines area mile long. More Libyan News from Reuters[...]
June 19th, 2011 - 9:34 am § in Misc.
The Problem of Republican Idiots
Eric Alterman read more at the Nation. The liars and lunatics serve as a smoke screen for the conservative war on the poor and the middle class.[...]
June 19th, 2011 - 8:35 am § in Schools & Colleges
Adjuncts vs. Full Time Faculty … a way to save $36,000?
June 17, 2011 Inside Higher Ed (excerpted) Fifteen years ago, the faculty union at Green River Community College persuaded administrators to add one new full-time faculty position each year (in 2003, it became two positions per year) in order to better balance the percentages of full-time and part-t[...]
June 19th, 2011 - 7:24 am § in Uncategorized
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Soldier fails required spiritual fitness test.
from the Humanist: (excerpted) Fort Hood houses the Spiritual Fitness Center, a facility functioning on the edict that all human beings are comprised of three components: the physical (body), the mental (mind), and the spiritual (soul). These three attributes are interwoven and interdependent, and t[...]